Some analysts believe Kyiv is buying the west time on the precipice of a world war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/08/putin-war-ukraine-forgotten-lessons-of-history-europeYou can talk about anything, but no one knows for sure how it all might end. The lack of unity between countries in both camps leaves too much variation. Again, there are fears of a possible nuclear strike by russia due to permission to fire Western weapons at targets on its territory. I don't rule it out. For example, Kharkiv can become Hiroshima, even if this is the last thing Putin has time to do. History knows many irrational actions of those who quite successfully rose to power and held it for many years. But everything ends someday.
It seems that the West has already unequivocally decided that Ukraine will not be another Czechoslovakia, and even if the situation at the front sharply worsens, it will take adequate measures to prevent a russian victory.
Therefore, I am more concerned about what is happening in Ukraine. And in Ukraine, it seems that a change of power is being prepared and some people are already trying to distance themselves from this government and look for a place in the ranks of the next one.
The head of the State Agency for Reconstruction and Development of Infrastructure, Mustafa Nayem, announced that he is resigning from his position. The prime minister accuses him of poor work and lack of reporting. In turn, among the reasons for his dismissal, Nayem cited the cancellation of the budget for road restoration and maintenance projects, the long approval of documents for the payment of protective structures, fortifications or restoration, and the fact that contractors are not paid on time. He also stated that after the dismissal of Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov, it became impossible to implement some projects, as well as that his participation in the Conference on the Restoration of Ukraine in Berlin was cancelled.
https://sud.ua/uk/news/ukraine/302899-mustafa-nayem-zayavil-chto-uvolnyaetsya-s-dolzhnosti-glavy-agentstva-vosstanovleniyahttps://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/articles/czkkp81jyy2oTherefore, disputes within the government reached the highest level and became public.
The first deputy director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, Gizo Uhlava, was also removed from his post.
https://ukranews.com/ua/news/1012300-uglavu-pozbavyly-majzhe-vsih-povnovazhen-ale-ne-vidstoronyly-vid-posadyI still did not understand what exactly happened there, but it is difficult to recognize the effective activity of this body.
Other people went to the Berlin Conference on the Restoration of Ukraine
https://segodnya.novyny.live/konferentsiia-z-vidbudovi-ukrayini-v-berlini-zelenskii-zatverdiv-sklad-delegatsiyi-178770.html , and the president made a surprising statement. He stated that 9 GW of capacity was destroyed in Ukraine, which is approximately half of Ukraine's energy needs. At the same time, the energy industry should restore up to 1 GW of electricity production by the end of this year thanks to gas shunting generation. Instead, building 1 GW of generation by the end of the year and 4 GW in the coming years in Ukraine is an impossible task. According to Olena Zerkal, ex-deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for European integration, adviser to the Minister of Energy of Ukraine, such statements of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi are not based on real technical possibilities. Gas generation is not built within six months from the date of application. Finding the turbines, determining the installation location, making the design, connecting them, training the teams to operate them takes a year under the best conditions. In Ukraine, the conditions are not the best: the turbines that were brought last year have not yet been started.
https://zn.ua/ukr/energetics/pobuduvati-1-hvt-heneratsiji-do-kintsja-roku-i-4-hvt-u-blizhchi-roki-je-nemozhlivim-zerkal.htmlThe United States provides $824 million to support Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Penny Pritzker, the US special representative for the economic recovery of Ukraine, stated this today in Berlin during a conference on the recovery of Ukraine.
https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-economy/3873768-pricker-u-berlini-ssa-nadaut-ukraini-824-miljoni-na-pidtrimku-energetiki.html"Ukraine has completed all the steps that we have determined. And that is why we believe that the EU should start accession negotiations with Ukraine by the end of this month," said the Head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the same conference.
https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/news/2024/06/11/7187875/The Biden administration will allow a Ukrainian military unit with a checkered past to use U.S. weaponry, the State Department said Monday, having lifted a ban imposed years ago amid concerns in Washington about the group’s origins. The Azov Brigade, known for its tenacious but ultimately unsuccessful defense of the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol early in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, is regarded as a particularly effective fighting force. But it was barred about a decade ago from using American arms because U.S. officials determined that some of its founders espoused racist, xenophobic and ultranationalist views, and U.N. human rights officials accused the group of humanitarian violations.
Now the brigade, a one-time volunteer militia absorbed into the Ukrainian National Guard in 2015, will have access to the same U.S. military assistance as any other unit. The policy shift was disclosed as Kyiv starts the summer fighting season and faces down a Russian military that has intensified its pressure on objectives in eastern Ukraine and the country’s energy infrastructure.
“After thorough review, Ukraine’s 12th Special Forces Azov Brigade passed Leahy vetting as carried out by the U.S. Department of State,” the agency said in a statement, referring to the “Leahy Law” that prevents U.S. military assistance from going to foreign units credibly found to have committed major human rights violations. It is named for former senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), who wrote the legislation. The State Department found “no evidence” of such violations, its statement says.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/10/azov-brigade-ukraine-us-weapons/President Andrzej Duda signed an amendment to the law on assistance to citizens of Ukraine. Among other things, it provides for the extension of the legality of stay of Ukrainian refugees until September 30, 2025, the extension of access to medical services, family and social benefits, benefits paid by the social insurance institution, as well as the possibility of staying in collective means of accommodation.
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